Chapter 3
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Mayumi finally went to look for Kasumi. However, her thoughts were not with her student.
Her mind was on something else.

The first one had already recognized her.
But she had suspected it. Had known a long time.
She knew there would only be three people in her old home that she would recognize after all these years.
Only three people.

On the one hand, her brother, who had always been with her, whom she had lost so long ago. Obito just had to look into her eyes and the grin that she always saw when he looked at her would have appeared on his face.

Then there was Yondaime. The fourth Hokage, who had always treated her like a friend rather than a child. He had taken her seriously. Never told her there was something she couldn't do. Not like so many others. She had lost him too.

And of course Kakashi. He who had always meant most to her of all.She had met him again. His image appeared in her head. She tried to think of something else, but his face was always there. Covered by the mask he'd always worn. Her heart warmed at the thought of him, but she pushed the feeling away.
She couldn't just take back her feelings from before. She had changed, had responsibilities in her new home, Yukigakure.

Finally she left the forest and came to a level where she found several deep grooves. Somebody or something seemed to have raged here.
she looked around and saw several figures in the distance.
// Well there it should be ... //

May she made the way too, but halfway through something suddenly came towards her. It was a blond boy who fell right at her feet.
Mayumi immediately leaned over him. He had closed his eyes, but when he opened them now, she saw his pupils glow in deep red.// Oh shit ... //
Before she could do anything, the boy threw her backwards. May rolled over once before landing on her feet and quickly making several finger marks. When the boy attacked again, she broke his defense and tapped a point on his neck.

Seconds later, the boy collapsed and disintegrated.
// It was probably too strong for the doppelganger ... //
May shrugged and walked the rest of the way to the small group.

"Sensei!", Kasumi came towards her and looked at her worried, "Everything okay? The Kyuubi has disappeared in your direction!"
"Don't worry ...", May Kasumi calmed down and returned to the group with her.

There she had a surprise.
"What are YOU doing here?", She asked Kakashi, who had greeted her with a sober "Hi" and was now looking apologetically.
She gave him a withering look before noticing the astonished looks of the others.

"Sensei ... do you know Hatake-senpai?", Asked Kasumi and May had to be surprised as always about the unbelievable politeness of her student.No one except her still spoke to her as Sensei and no one else would have called Kakashi by their last name.
But that's what Kasumi was like. Always polite and controlled. Well ... mostly, because when she was really angry, then her real strength came out and then she could beat anyone.

"Yes ... we have already met ...", May said shortly and no one except Kakashi recognized her lie.
He then introduced the other two present.
The blond boy whose shadow doubles she had defeated was Naruto Uzumaki, the nine-tailed Jinchuuriki.
He introduced the other young man simply as Yamato. Mayumi immediately realized that he wasn't a normal ninja. He had to be a member of the Anbu.

"Why exactly are you here?" Naruto asked after a while.
"We should protect and support you.", May answered him.
"We know that Kyuubi is sealed in you, but that the seal is broken during your training.", she said before turning to Yamato," Have you kept the transformed ones at bay so far? "
Yamato nodded.
"Then we will relieve you now."

"And how do you want to do that?", The Anbu asked the legitimate question.
This time it was Kasumi who answered. She rarely took the initiative, but this was something special.
"I have the ability to incorporate the chakra of a strange ninja into my own. If there is even a slight change, I will notice it immediately. In Naruto-kun's case, the whole thing works like an early warning system."
"What if you realized that?" Yamato asked further.
"Then Sensei Rin comes into play." Kasumi said nothing more.
It wasn't necessary either.
You would see what happened next.

"Well, I'm not so sure ...", Yamato continued to mumble, but Kakashi put a hand on his shoulder and nodded in confirmation.
He didn't know how exactly May wanted to do that, but he knew that he could trust her.She would already know what she was doing.
Finally, Yamato nodded too.

"Kasumi ... start ...", my May and her student nodded.
She went up to Naruto, who looked at the girl suspiciously.
"Don't worry ...", she just said. She had done this a hundred times. She knew what to do.
"Put your hand forward and concentrate a bit of the chakra in it. It doesn't have to be a lot ..." she told him.
Naruto did what she asked while Kasumi formed a finger sign and finally tapped the chakra with the middle finger of her right hand.

A thin thread from Naruto's chakra wound around the girl's hand before it disappeared.
"Well ... that's it. From now on I am connected to you and I can tell if something is wrong.", She smiled and then went to May.
"Everything went well?" She asked and the girl nodded.
Naruto came shortly after her too.

"For now, always stay close to him ... your chakra have not yet synchronized.You know that your sensitivity towards his chakra is not yet sufficient to cover long distances. ", May said and again Kasumi nodded.
Your teacher was right. She knew them well. Knew exactly where her limits were.
"Come on, Naruto ... keep training so that I get used to your chakra ..." she said and pulled Naruto away from the group with her.

"You can go home now, Yamato ...", Kakashi said when Naruto and Kasumi were gone. He knew May was in control.
The Anbu nodded, bowed slightly, and then disappeared. He was happy to be able to relax. Naruto's strength sometimes pushed him to his limit when the kyuubi got too strong.

Finally May and Kakashi were alone.
May sat on a stone and looked in the direction in which Kasumi was training with Naruto.
Kakashi stood next to her and looked in the same direction.
The wind was blowing harder again and driving clouds across the gray sky. Harbingers of a storm."Why didn't you tell me that you are Naruto's master?" May asked after a while, the silence, however, did not look at Kakashi.
"You didn't ask and you were gone so quickly ..." he gave as a short answer. He didn't look at her either. His gaze was directed into the distance.
Again there was silence for some time.
They had so much to say to each other, but nobody wanted to start.
Finally May broke the silence.

"I was in my parents' house yesterday ... I had read about it, but I had no idea that it would be so deserted ... I was wondering where Sasuke is ...", she started, keeping her eyes on Kasumi.
"So you don't know then ..."
Kakashi sighed. He turned his gaze to Mayumi. He had to tell her what happened to her brother, even if it would probably break her heart.

"Sasuke is not here. He has left Konoha and, like Itachi, is on the list of traitors. But in contrast to his big brother, Sasuke did not join the Akatsuki, but followed Orochimaru ..." he said and May slowly turned his head to him.There was a terrified look in her eyes.

So Itachi was with the Akatsuki. So he was chasing Naruto and the other Bijuu. At some point he would probably hunt her too.
And Sasuke ... your dear little Sasuke was with Orochimaru. How could that have happened?
Inside, she reproached herself.
Maybe everything would have turned out differently if she hadn't accepted this assignment. Maybe her family would still be alive and not separated like now.

"You can't help it ..." Kakashi muttered, who seemed to read her thoughts in her gaze.
"Everything that happened would have happened one way or the other. Whether you were there or not ..."
She nodded.
A slight, unbelievable nod.

"Why didn't you come back earlier?" He asked suddenly.
May bowed her head, pulled her knees up, and sighed.
She had expected such a question.
"I don't know ... I wasn't ready. I started a new life in Yukigakure. A different life than I led here ...", she tried to explain herself, but it was just excuse.But she really didn't know.

Silence fell over the two of them again. Her eyes slid back to her students.
"Has Yondaime's wish been fulfilled in the meantime?" May asked.
She knew the fourth Hokage wanted Naruto to have a full life full of friends.
"Just a little ... He has friends ... he gets along well with almost everyone and he is respected ... at least by his peers. You know, he has Yondaime's spirit in him. Look at him. Like the master in the old days ..." said Kakashi.

He was seldom heard talking about Yondaime. Naruto didn't even know that Yondaime had once been his master.
He didn't know anything about him.
Why should he tell his protégé about himself too?
When he accepted the position of Master of the Three, he had vowed not to develop a relationship with them. He thought it was better that way.
But he hadn't succeeded.
His three students had grown dear to his heart."It's good when he has friends ..." May replied and watched Naruto start a little fight with Kasumi.
"Who else was on his team?"
"A girl named Sakura Haruno. She is a student of Tsunade and an excellent Medical Ninja. She also inherited her power ...", answered Kakashi, "and Sasuke. He was also on my team. He saw Naruto as a rival. Killed him and almost killed him ... "

Mayumi's head jerked around and she stared at him.
He, of all people, had taught her brother. The rest didn't surprise her. He was like the other Uchiha men. Only that he was really ready to kill